The funniest part is that it is centered around three generations of women

and the Grandmother is exactly like me with her wit and personality or should I say attitude!!

The daughter and granddaughter are just like Robin and Morgan!!!

We all loved it and have sore sides from laughing so hard and a swollen face from crying so hard!!

We especially loved the part where the grandmother was upset with the daughter for putting that special Christmas ornament on the wrong side of the Christmas tree...........the family said she sounded just like me!!!! Guilty!!!

Friday, January 29, 2010

will be sure to tell you that I can change my mind at the drop of a hat. I am a Gemini and I have been told that I am supposed to be like that, right?

Just this morning Robin and I were talking about our favorite quilt patterns and fabrics. I told her that I was OK with some of the modern fabrics out there but my heart always steered me right back to the old fashioned patterns and designs such as a great calico log cabin or Grandmother's Flower Garden or a nice Pinwheel pattern.

So what did I do but go straight to Joann Fabrics, walk in and buy 2 of these very very modern jelly rolls and come home.......march right up to my newly semi-organized sewing studio and make 7 log cabin blocks !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well at least I did stick to my favorite pattern!!

I should have a lot of "me" time in that sewing studio over the next couple days as it is already snowing outside and we are supposed to be getting as much as 18"......ugh!

My house is sooooooo noisy right now.....all the girls, excluding me are in the kitchen playing Rummy or Romey as Emma calls it! I have never heard such laughing in all my days! They won't let me play with them......they said for me to just go sew something!

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Oh boy oh boy have I been at it today. I was so tired of having a sewing machine here and an ironing board there. Here a cutting board and there a cutting board.....and everywhere in my house a sewing mess.

How was a girl to get anything done?

So I went to town on this room upstairs which was my original sewing room.

I have had a dilema with my quilting frames......I did not have room to put them up and extend them to fit a king sized quilt. Or hardly room to even use them for a lap quilt either. Danny has been begging me to make one for our bed. He made me a bed when we first got married....full size though. He says if he could build a bed at least I could make a quilt for it!! Does he really know what's involved with that one? LOL!!!In the picture above there are 2 big Rubbermaid tables sitting end to end which can be used for the frames as big as I need them to be!!! woooowooooo!!!!! Finally figured that one out!

Until I get that said king size quilt made and ready for the frames one of the tables will be used as a cutting table. It is up on blocks to save my back!

My Christmas present last year was a whole bunch of new receptacles in my sewing room and peg board!!This sewing cabinet was a consignment store treat at $44 last year!!!!!!! I love it!!

You see what kept me going today....Dr Pepper and my MP3!!!

I may be sewing all night!!

I am still a little bit crowded but it seems to be pretty functional at the same time.

One of the best things I have ever done was to buy that big display of Gutermann thread. I got it 1/2 price at Joann Fabrics (I think it was $89) a couple years ago and it has really come in handy. I don't remember ever being out of thread unless it was quilting thread since I bought this.

I can sit in the one rolling chair and scoot around to the 3 different machines as I need to.

Semi-organized shelves for storage. I have lots of containers that have been repurposed for storage of sewing notions. My bolts of fabric fit on the bottom shelf nicely. The tan cabinet is chock full of fabric. No it's not sorted by colors and perfectly folded soI did not take pictures of that ;-)I wish!!

Lots of good work surface until it gets junky!!

I love having a big cutting table!

When I need to extend the frames I can move some of this over or out for a while.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

This is what I have been working on today...well yesterday too. Oh yeah and last month briefly.....and they said the pattern was so easy that I would be amazed at how quickly it would come together!! hahaha

I have named it "Newspaper"! Ever since I first laid eyes on this fabric when it was but a mere dessert roll, I have thought about this joke......

"What is black and white and read/red all over? A Newspaper"

So of course I had to name it Newspaper.

The dessert roll did not have a selvage edge on the strips.

I had to go back and purchase some more of the fabric off of the bolt today and when I was cutting out the borders I happened to notice the name of the fabric written in the selvage.

I have had a terrible cold for a couple days now and have been feeling like I am in a fog and things are not really clear mentally, well that is not very different from the norm!!

Guess what this fabric collection is called??????

Black & White & Red Allover by Henry Glass!!!

Not kidding!!

I was just sorta stunned for a moment or two.

Kinda surreal, things sorta went gray for me for a moment!

I couldn't believe my eyes!

I am a psychic!

Anyone want their palms read?

I am keeping this quilt for myself and I am practicing with the new machine again.

I am doing the same meandering maze quilting pattern that I used on my pinwheel quilt. I am using that pattern because it comes so easily to me. Maybe from a lot of practice on the pinwheel quilt? I had greater than 20 hours in it. I sure hope it doesn't take as long on this one. The new machine is a lot smoother so I am thinking it won't take as long.

Don't look too closely!I still have to get used to the speed of the machine so right nowmy stitches are a little uneven in length ;-)

The lighting in my office/sewing room is not the greatest at night and I am having a hard time seeing well enough to quilt this tonight. This is a very busy pattern and it all runs together!I will be ready come daylight though!I think I will go finish handstitching the binding on the last quilt that I showed you so I can show some real pictures of it tomorrow! I think it turned out really cute!

Sunday, January 24, 2010

and she is still sleeping....shhshhh she had a rough trip home with her new mommy.

When she is awake we will show pictures.

Actually mommy is a little overwhelmed at the time with this new baby.

Her new Baby Lock that is!!!

We had quite a time yesterday.....long trip....had to get in lots of shopping too.

Well our kind of shopping that is....

antiqueing!!

Leslie spotted these 2 stores on the way down to Richmond and we had to stop on the way back.

They were all screaming "Please Mama"..."Please Granny" ..."we will be good and not let you buy anything"...........

This looks like Robin with a baby on board!!

I caught Leslie with her hands in the cookie jar!

She was also eyeing the cool primitive cabinet.

I don't know where she gets this from!!

Need I say more......except I already have this sink and no it is not attached to a wall anywhere!

Oh Danny!!

Look at those screen doors!!!!!!

Nothing a little Comet wouldn't scrub out!

We always have to check out the toilets!

Needs to be white and in my house!

Has to be white and in my house!

Oh No they are sooooo young to be acting like this!

I need a potting table like this! I do, I really do!

I have to go back with my truck cause this wouldn't fit on the top of my car......we tried!!

I need a new washing machine!

and a new dryer!

If the electric bills go up any higher I will have to go back and get these!

They are happy that they didn't have to ride on the hood and hold on to the stove!

Don't they think they are smart. Hurrying to beat me to the goods!

Cute greeting!

Three sweet little lambs!

Aaaawwwhhh!!!

The toilet....this one is my style!

Terri I was going to buy this for you because I knew you would love it. I knew you would have this table full of good homecooking and surrounded by happy kids!!I couldn't get it cause they wouldn't let me!

Do I have room for just one more?

Anywhere?

I need this sign to send to my new grandson's house cause he is going to be called Bubba!!!(southern boy ya know)

I was almost as excited as when you are getting ready to head to the beach!!!

I have had this excitement a couple times before

with a Craigslist purchase.

My Nubian Buck was about 6 hours away.....crazy??

Then our new boat was about 3 hours away.

Come on locals please sell me some good stuff locally so I don't have to travel so far!!!

Like I said I always have good company willing to go along with me though!!

(I wonder why I had no takers on my 6 hour trip to Ohio to buy 3 angora goats and had to go by myself? Maybe I will have to have someone refresh my memory on that one. About the time I am getting ready to buy them all lunch I'll bring that one up ;-)

Friday, January 22, 2010

because Danny Moran asked for me to pull up something about the new trucking rules online.

He expected me to do it as always

but I told him he had to learn sometime.

I made him take control of the mouse and

in a few minutes he was surfing like no body's business!!!!

Now I know that there are some pigs out there somewhere flying around this morning!!

Don't you just love his rhinestone glasses!

He's so cuuuuute!!

Morgan tells him that daily!

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Jayme~ I do not want you having a heart attack due to my incredibly messy office! I know mine does not in any way compare to the cleanliness of yours!

You see here:

Sewing books

My Bible

Grandma Goldies Picture

Tax papers (cringe)

A book on raising dairy goats

Quilt magazines

Camera manuals

Chicken catalogs

my husband

Seed catalogs

an ER nursing manual (comes in handy around this place)

Camera bag

pictures of grandkids

recipes

my laptop

decorating magazines

dust

a dusting cloth (now that's funny)

and many other items too numerous to mention

Can you figure out at least 2 of my hobbies from this list of items that suck my breath out of me when I am in that office? This is all in a 3' X 3' area! Hey it's my junk and if anyone else wants to come and clean it up for me because it's bothering them just let me know and I'll send my address!!

Why don't you guess my hobbies in order of importance to me?

Of course behind the scenes are 2 sewing machines and 2 quilt projects that I have started. This room is serving several purposes at the time mostly sewing/office!

..............and yes my friends the Christmas decorations are upstairs tucked away for another year...well 10ish months!! While he was upstairs putting the boxes away.....he yelled downstairs at me and asked me "Have you ever seen a more organized sewing room? I bet those women would like to see a picture of this on your blog! Hand me the camera and I'll take a picture for them to see!" That's where my real sewing room is but it's not so convienent to use and I have expanded (apparently) and now need 2 rooms!! LOL!!!!! Yeah those sewing/quilting projects are just rolling out of there left and right!! I told you pigs were flying!!

That's what he told me last night after I held that gun to his head and made him eat a HUGE plate of slow cooker pork loin and gravy.

I MADE him go back

"3"

more times.

I made him say to me

"this is the best stuff I have ever ate"

and

then I MADE him eat pie!

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Then while he was laying back on his chaise lounge,

watching TV,

with a big belly bulge...that was putting it nicely my friends......

He had the nerve

to look over at me

and say

that I was killing him by the way I cooked.

I said "Oh yeah, maybe I shouldn't have held that gun to your head."

"Maybe you should start practicing a little portion control?"

"Huh?....just maybe that would be the issue?"

He said "NO, that's not it."

"You just have to cook only a little bitty bit for both of us, so I can't go back for seconds."

(or thirds or fourths)

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So there goes my ideas down the drain of cooking enough to last for a couple days. The plan was to have several meals including lunch for me here during the day.

Now I am going to go and burn all my cookbooks and feed him a playing card size piece of grilled chicken breast and a broccoli stick tonight!

He comes in from work so hungry that he will not remember telling me this......I know it was his overly stretched belly doing the talking last night.......but he better think about those words for a while!! Be careful what you ask for!!

I am also going to hide the remote so he will hit the treadmill tonight!!

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There will be no more

"Becky what you cooking today?"

"Honey what's for supper?"

"Hey I was thinking about an ice cream cone!"

Nope no more of that.....he will get what he wants and that's rabbit food!

This is coming after he had to go up a pants size in his jeans last week....but that's all my fault.

He does have familial hyperlipidemia..high cholesterol and lipids. He was on medication for this and it was working wonders but they wanted it even lower so they doubled it up. Danny immediately couldn't sleep at night because of shoulder and arm pain.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Is this not precious? I mean lovebirds!! Come on!! Get a room, already!!! Why did ya come in here looking like that?

Yes you guessed it. Breeding season!!

I know everyone else on here is experiencing kidding season but why would I want to be like everyone else? I am always a day late and a dollar short!!! You know kinda off beat!! Off the beat or something like that! The truth is that I got a really late start last year by trying to find a buck and that in turn messed this year up too. I can't say that I didn't like not having to be worrying about kidding in the cold weather though!! July worked quite well!

I can say that I like warm weather! We had a beautiful day and of course I took advantage of some sunshine to get the laundry out! .........and to get the chicken coop cleaned out, some spray painting outside, cleaning porches etc etc etc....... and playing in the mud!Better than snow and ice!!!!

I just love this picture! Still playing with my camera ;-)

The guineas loved the warm weather too! This picture looks a little tropical with the green bamboo! We'll just pretend that is sand in the background, OK????Watch your step, sandspurs ya know!!

Now for the celebration I made this pie! I took pictures but I decided that since the pictures don't do it justice that I will save you from having to endure them. The pictures and the pie look pretty rough. However it looks pretty darned good too. It's in the fridge chilling as we speak and in about 30 minutes I plan to be ready for dessert!!

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I have something to celebrate now. I mentioned a couple posts back about a phone call that I received with a job offer and an interview scheduled for the next day. I got the job offer!!!! Woo wooooooo!!!!

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That's not what I am celebrating though. I am celebrating the fact that I came to my senses and declined the job offer!!!!! Double woowooowooooowoooowoooo!!!! I know I probably shouldn't feel that way about it but it is like a great big black cloud settled in on my shoulders right about the time I made it to the interview and did not leave for 3 days until I made up my mind not to take it!! Why mess up a good thing? We are certainly not going hungry! Actually far from it!!

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So come back in about 30 minutes and we'll have coffee and

Chocolate Caramel Pie!!

Of course I could have been a good blogger and typed out this recipe for you but I am not a good blogger and this is how I do things. OK?????? Shut up and go make you some pie if you won't come and have a piece with me. Better hurry cause Danny looks hungry ;-)

Pie update:

Don't go get your shoes and coat on quite yet. No need to hurry over. It was just so so because the crust tasted almost burnt. It was really dry and sorta scorched. Didn't look like it so I think it was probably not good to begin with cause you all know I couldn't up mess up a pie if I tried! Wrong!!!

I baked it on an airbake cookie sheet too. ??????

The filling, however is to die for chocolate. A cross between a chocolate mousse and a chocolate cheesecake! Smooth and heavenly! I will make this one again with a different crust!